– Are the most powerful people in this world merely puppets in the hands of greater forces??

– GOD – the great swirling vortex that is present in the midst of wherever 2 or 3 are gathered as one in the Name (me-we-us)!

– Spirit ~ attitude/mindset/disposition/ habitus
GOD – the Spirit of all spirits!
Spirit/GOD NOT equal to ‘anti-flesh’, just as energy is NOT equal to non-matter.
(I need the symbol for “not equal to”)

– Trinity – why did GOD reveal himself to Moses as “I AM” instead of “WE ARE”?
Montheism still remains at the very heart of Christianity.
Even the Trinity is essentially a tri-unity!

– Pro. 24:21-22
Should the Colombian people/state try this approach with the FARC rebels?!
(Is this the reason for the Nobel Peace Prize?)
Sometimes, the only way to ultimately fulfill the need for justice, is through the immediate scandal of unconditional reconciliation……

– Who is Chiara Lubich?
And what is the Focolare Movement?

24.12.16

– Time to make merry with some Christmas music! 🎄

– Could poor leadership be one of the root causes of the crisis our world is in today?
What could be done about this problem?

– Let Christmas be the Christian Jubilee!
“…and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation.”
Luke 11:4 NET
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“If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him, because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 25:54‭-‬55 NET
Time to write off all the debts/sins between each other!
This Christmas season, I would like to extend an invitation for all of you, to be reconciled with all those people who’s relationship with you is strained or cut.
In the name of our newborn King,
AMEN.

– Why are you here, playing this game with these people?
What is this game all about?
How is it played?
The me-us-we
The fluffy, the trophy, the bell & the glass platform
Interjecting & reflecting

– The priest/pastor must also be fed the Elements by another!
Food (sacraments) ~ community (Communion) ~ gratitude (Eucharist)
Christmas is not meant to show that that baby alone was different/divine, but that every baby is the result of a Virgin birth!
Eating (food) without discerning the flesh & blood (of Christ) brings condemnation/judgment/death.
All societies/cultures are cannibalistic, this is revealed by Christianity, not as a criticism, but just as a reality to be faced & embraced…… Only those who have done this can be truly non-violent!
GOD shows us, through Christ, that we all live, by eating others and being eaten by others.

25.12.16

– Mahalo
J’adore

– Wish a very MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you, friends! 🎄✨🍾🍷
Let us all remember today, to forget, and not forget to remember……
*ENJOY* 👏🏽

– Maybe the Crucifix has taken up too much of focus in Christian theology, and the crib needs to be restored to its rightful place.

– “My thought was pulled in two different directions by the blood of the innocent crying out to God and by the blood of God’s Lamb offered for the guilty. How does one remain loyal both to the demand of the oppressed for justice and to the gift of forgiveness that the Crucified offered to the perpetrators? I felt caught between two betrayals—the betrayal of the suffering, exploited, and excluded, and the betrayal of the very core of my faith. In a sense even more disturbingly, I felt that my very faith was at odds with itself, divided between the God who delivers the needy and the God who abandons the Crucified, between the demand to bring about justice for the victims and the call to embrace the perpetrator. I knew, of course, of easy ways to resolve this powerful tension. But I also knew that they were easy precisely because they were false.”
“…my desires, commitments, rebellions, resignations & uncertainties”

“Following the crucified One in a world of injustice, deception & violence…” – Miroslav Volf

26.12.16

– Capitalism & romance

– Know where to use “&” and where to use “and”

– Taking risks gives me a high!

– See the angel (the future YOU) in the marble (the present you), and carve (affirm & stretch) until you set her free, baby!

– Never apologize for (or hide) who you (really) are!
Stand your ground.
Stick to your guns.
Offence is the best form of defense.

28.12.16

– Mutual seduction of disciplines
Theological erotics
Political desires
Love – redefining desire & pleasure
“It engages risk at the point where the hope for salvation paradoxically endangers the safety of subjects—in particular, of theological subjects—by opening them to those transgressions of eros in which boundaries, once exceeded, become places of emerging possibility.
Is agape just sublimated eros?
Interrogating “given/self-evident truths”
The prior & unexpected Gift
Agape as giving love
Eros as possessing love
Faith as receptive love
Avoiding simple conflations
A relational construal of desire
Intersex
Erotic pieties
Premodern texts and their postmodern resonances
A discourse that is resistant to the hegemony of the normal
The androgynous/queer body of Christ
The Pauline corpus
Heterosexism and asexual theology
Startlingly rich & teasingly cloaked exchanges
Fascinatingly fluid subjectivities
Deification of the male monastic body
Errant

We ~ government + environment + commerce + culture + social relations
Me ~ consciousness + intellect + emotions + breath + body
Me + we = Sublime-us!
The birth of the Us-consciousness, intellect, emotions, breath & body
Integrating the Eastern & Western views of me & we in the process of the Sublime-us.
The theory emerging from the evolving practice/experience!
Introductory session:
1. Why am I here playing this game with these people?
2. What is this game?
3. How to play it?

– “God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.” – Voltaire
(Referred by Ashok Daniel)
His presence is equally intense everywhere! No central & peripheral zones. And no limits, so nothing outside…

5.1.17

– Optimal strategy

6.1.17

– quorum
Justice of the peace
affidavit
Summary judgment
scalability

7.1.16

– Object-subject-agent
Pervert-transfigure
Actively courting submission
Postbiblical emplotment
Erotic transformation of the Cross
Prayerful fantasies and sadomasochistic disciplines
Subtle seduction & abusive tyranny
Justice/love & pleasure/freedom
“The dilemma is real: the desire for justice may seem at points to require the forcible constraint of the erotic, yet to foreclose on the inherent transgressiveness of eros is also to risk repressing the very potential for transformability that enables the emergence of new possibilities for justice, love, and pleasure within human community.”
Transgressiveness and transformability
Eroticism & creativity
Imagination & idealism
The false dichotomy of lust/flesh/pleroma & love/spirit/kenosis
Parabiblical figures
Productively disruptive potentiality
Divine becoming & human nature
Feminization of the deity
A fresh conceptualization of the transcendence encountered in the Other
Desexualize ~ antifeminine
The collapsing of pain/suffering & pleasure/ecstasy
Linear temporality
Vs.
Rhythmic sensuality
Salvific promise at the most intimate level of bodily passions
Subverting binaries
Eschatologically charged exegetical traditions
Engaging theology while refusing to be disciplined by it
Eroticizing the doctrine of GOD
Self-othering

“Fire at Sea” (2016, Italy)
Juxtaposition of opposites brings out universality!
Fire at sea – the song & the war, both within the same film which is about neither.
In this world, can there be any neutral ground, or is it possible to take just one side over against many others (not just one polar opposite)??

“Son of Saul” (2015, Hungary)
The dead son ‘saves’ the ‘living’ father……!
Putting ideals above persons – heroism or folly?
The smile says it all! Salvation is the only thing that matters. Humanity restored.

“Things to Come” (2016, France)
Only for those who love philosophy (like me)…?
Seeing difference as complementarity instead of contradiction. From disappointment to celebration.
Polarity >> electricity!
Solid teaching/home-making as the seed-bed of revolution
“I am a teacher. I don’t do politics!” – vocation is not primarily a response, but an expression.

“The Salesman” (2016, Iran)
GOD, shake us all, & wake us up! Anything is better than this comatose mediocrity…
The slap brings out the pent up tears. I am a masochist, & I am so glad I know. 🙂
The We playing in the me and the us.
Compare with “Sila Samayangalil”

“Sila Samayangalil” (2016, India)
Not that good.
Choices & consequences. Who is to blame? Wrong question?
Where is ideology/capitalism in all of this?
How could GOD/faith/spirituality make a difference?
Redeeming chance. Living in/with chaos without going mad with (dis-)ordering…

Did she “kill” him?

“The Student” (2016, Russia)
WOW! Student vs. disciple = rebel/martyr/killer
Hmmm… I think the sinister & violent turn in his strategy/conduct spoils the realism and radicality of the religious challenge in the movie!
Where has theology gone?! When church, family & school have failed, what will the children do??
How do we use the Bible biblically?

Compare with “Ordet” & “Jimmy’s Hall”

“Joker” (2016, India)
Not that great. Does it deserve the first prize. What about “விசாரணை”?
Who are the insane and who are the sane? Or does it only matter whether one is well-adjusted to the context?
Is idealism possible, without sentimentality or violence?